Thanks all. "Sophia Ellen" seems to have taken the lead in the minds of the parents (but, then, what do they know). A very healthy, wriggling, wide-eyed, fist-and-finger munching, hungry, tiny-squeak emitting little munchkin.

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

--------------It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it. We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

--------------I wouldn't be bothered reading about the selfish gene because it has never been identified. -- Denyse O'Leary, professional moronAgain "how much". I don't think that's a good way to be quantitative.-- gpuccio

--------------"Science is what got us to the humble place weâ€™re at, and what hard-won progress we might realize comes from science, with ID completely flaccid, religious apologetics bitching from the sidelines." - Eigenstate at UD

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

Congratulations to mother and baby and grandparents.....and also the father. But as I have learned the father comes waaaaaaaaaaaaaay down the list.

Bitter? Me? Never!

Taking the piss out of myself? ....Perhaps!

Anyway, I am sure the F1 Pinheads will have a great time with the F2 Pinheadette. And the F0 Pinhead can have the great, vengeance filled joy of handing the F2 Pinheadette back to the F1 Pinheads with the immortal words:

P.S. As for names. Why bother? They don't come when you call them. Just call her "Oi YOU!" for a few years until she's developed a bit more. What? WHAT? That's a perfectly legitimate parenting technique!

When I talk to people about what makes us human, some people say it's our tears. Because we are the only ones who weep, only we can feel true sorrow.

When I hear this, I remember Isiro's face, her anguished eyes as she cried for Mikeno, how she screamed at the keepers with her teeth bared and pushed at the poles. How she dashed back to his body and dug her fingers into his chest as if the strength of her grip could bring him back.

There is sorrow without tears. Of course there is. - Vanessa Woods, Bonobo Handshake.

--------------Lou FCD is still in school, so we should only count him as a baby biologist. -carlsonjok -deprecatedI think I might love you. Don't tell Deadman -Wolfhound

I'm not good at coming up with names. Given the computer geek that I am, I would probably name her Ubuntu or something.

--------------"[A scientific theory] describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept Nature as She is - absurd."- Richard P. Feynman

Changing the odd nappy won't bother me all that much (though, to be sure, I'm glad not to have the frontline duty). After raising three boys, I'll just be glad not to be fountained with pee during the changing...!

And I don't think Sophia is all that far from Sewfie, at all, at all...

Though I realize she won't be able to go skiing or climbing or frisbee-throwing with me for a few years, still, Sophia's impendency has challenged me to get back into shape over the summer and early fall. Still, just "having" my first grandchild at 60 will be a lasting challenge to stay sharp physically, mentally (always a chore for Teh Pinhead), and technologically.

Congrats. They are ridiculously cute when new, but I'm loving that my two girls are both speaking now. My four year old asked me, very seriously, the other night: "Why is the moon in cartoons yellow, but my moon is white?"

--------------"Creationists think everything Genesis says is true. I don't even think Phil Collins is a good drummer." --J. Carr

"I suspect that the English grammar books where you live are outdated" --G. Gaulin